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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-06-11 23:56:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> | 2010-06-11 23:56:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 313a120ab6515f1bcddb13a9403a857078a9e474 (patch) | |
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| parent | 0f35e2c0f44b2012e4e32aaccde6fa42756e61f1 (diff) | |
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Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
filenames and enable os.fsencode().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 970725a..7503697 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ process and user. .. function:: fsencode(value) Encode *value* to bytes for use in the file system, environment variables or - the command line. Uses :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` and - ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler for strings and returns bytes unchanged. - - Availability: Unix. + the command line. Use :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` and + ``'surrogateescape'`` error handler for strings and return bytes unchanged. + On Windows, use ``'strict'`` error handler for strings if the file system + encoding is ``'mbcs'`` (which is the default encoding). .. versionadded:: 3.2 |